Influencing at the international level to make aid more effective
The European Commission, as a member of the OECD-DAC, has been at the forefront of this international forum to improve the impact of development cooperation and has encouraged increased effectiveness of global development assistance by aiming for ambitious targets and reforming the way it delivers aid in order to meet those targets.
The next step at the international level is to make the fourth High Level Forum in aid effectiveness in Korea at the end of 2011 a success. The European Commission, through EuropeAid, is encouraging momentum towards achieving the Paris and Accra Agenda for Action targets and to give strategic direction for High Level Forum IV.
Working Party on Aid Effectiveness
The Co-Chair has successfully steered the Working Party on Aid Effectiveness, including its clusters and task teams, to focus on achieving concrete results in aid effectiveness at the country level, first through requiring country level action plans and then encouraging countries to show concrete results by the High Level Forum IV in 2011 and if necessary request support from the working party on aid effectiveness to facilitate change.
At the OECD-DAC working group on Development and Communication (DEVCom) in November 2009 the Co-Chair shared his thoughts on Communicating for High-Level Forum IV 
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Leading up to High Level Forum IV in 2011
EuropeAid is working closely with the clusters and task teams of the working party on aid effectiveness to influence international policy and implementation on:
• Ownership and accountability.
• Use of country systems including how to strengthen these systems.
• Transparent and responsible aid, including division of labour among donors and aid transparency, conditionality, predictability and untying.
• Assessing progress through the series of surveys of the Paris indicators.
• Aid effectiveness at sector levels.
Learn more about the EU's contribution to Accra and Paris